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but this time he’s not in uniform

and scholars who dedicated their minds and talents to glorify God in often spiritually hostile territory

from how a spider spins a web to why an earthquake has aftershocks

we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing

Opened Ground : Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Condition:Very Good The Toyota Andon Cord7In "Digging", the first poem in Opened Ground, Heaney likens his pen to both spade and gun. With these metaphors in place, he makes clear his difficult poetic task: to delve into the past, both personal and historic, while remaining ever mindful of the potentially fatal power of language. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, where any hint of Gaelic tradition in one's speech was considered a political act, Heaney is all too aware of the dire